4 proofs that intelligence is falling

Human intelligence peaked a couple of thousand years ago and people are getting steadily stupider, a scientist said last week. Professor Gerald Crabtree's words in the UK's Independent newspaper on Monday last week rang true with me. Mine has definitely peaked. As for society as a whole, probably the same thing is
happening. Proof? I'd just finished reading a
case sent in by a reader for this column's dumb criminals file.
On November 9, a car thief stole a delivery vehicle from a Chinese restaurant. The carjacker then proceeded to deliver all the meals to the right addresses. Police in Connecticut found it easy to catch him. They simply waited at the next address and he conveniently delivered himself into their hands, accompanied by a range of tasty snacks, prawn crackers, etc. For cops, it was the best case ever.
Also last week, a famous UK store called Debenhams revealed that customers couldn't understand modern coffee terms. So they changed "venti cappuccino" to Big Frothy Coffee, and "café latte" to Very Very Milky Coffee and so on. Presumably staff will tell buyers: "After buying, insert into mouth."
On an aircraft, a friend of mine was given a packet of peanuts which carried the words: "Eat after opening."
Passengers must have been trying to swallow the packet whole!
And then there are the comments under YouTube videos, which offer convincing proof that humans are turning into primitive, brain-free forms of life, like primeval sludge, moss, nationalist politicians, etc. Typical YouTube comment on my videos: "Your stuped."
When I mentioned this in the bar, someone told me about a sc-fi movie called Idiocracy which predicts that the human race will descend into total brainlessness in 500 years.
We're ahead of schedule.

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